Quotes about rig
rights mind sap
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
rights government effort
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny. Mark Levin
rights privilege enjoy
I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges. Mason Cooley
rights want
As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.
rights media people
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy. Michael Anti
rights chinese freedom-of-speech
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
rights movement body
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights. Martha Plimpton
rights fundamentals united-states
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. Ted Olson
rights trying world
The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management. Ted Nelson
rights constitution fit
All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights. Theodore Roosevelt
righteousness ifs
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
rights two agents
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.
rights feelings culture
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint. Michael Foley
rights judging progress
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch. Michelle Alexander
rights matter standards
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. Michelle Bachelet
rights people underwear
People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution. Michele Bachmann
rigorous ungodly
I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?' Joe Carnahan
rights ifs property
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure. Neal Boortz
rights civilization white
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.
rights soul humanity
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. Neale Donald Walsch
rights government years
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices. Nancy Pelosi
rights america independence
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed? John Tyler
rights perfect institutions
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
rights support community
He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects. John Stuart Mill
rights battle slavery
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose. John Shelby Spong
rights justice roles
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role. John Rawls
rights giving protection
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium) John Ralston Saul
right-now
I'm very rarely beyond words, and I am right now. John O'Hurley
rights citizens birth
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection. James K. Polk
rights minorities majority
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
rights democracy privilege
We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe. James Inhofe
rights liberty dare
They have rights who dare maintain them. James Russell Lowell
rights support gone
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion James Q. Wilson